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...other U. S. citizens doubtless will. Among them is John David Sweeney Jr., blue-eyed, sturdy, unmarried, 23. After graduating last June from Princeton, where he belonged to Colonial Club, he took a month off in Bermuda, then went to work as shipping clerk in his father's business the Royal Eastern Electrical Supply Co. of Brooklyn. He lives with his family in a 15-room house in suburban New Rochelle, N. Y. Like his father, mother and younger brother, he voted for Landon last month. Last week in Baltimore when his card appeared atop the first batch...
Despite its fame among naturalists, Ward's is almost unknown to laymen, even in Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there...
...Simplicio & Lucio Godino made world news by applying for licenses to marry Natividad and Victorina Motos in Manila. The marriage license clerk objected for fear of compounding collateral bigamy but the sisters and brothers eventually were married. They organized a vaudeville act in which they danced, saxophoned and bantered through South and North America...
...Pennington, a $35-per-week clerk without "any assets at all," signed surety bonds totaling $40,000,000 on such properties as the swank Bellevue-Stratford and Ritz-Carlton Hotels...
...last to testify before it. In 1934 he objected to the proposed Philadelphia Co. reorganization as ''a gigantic racket engineered by insiders." Subsequently he approved it, became a director. Also omitted from the true bills were Joseph E. Widener, who was a Philadelphia Co. director, and Clerk Pennington who signed the worthless bonds...